Announcing the Bloof Books 2014 Chapbook Series

Alberto Seveso, "Dropping" (via Colossal)

List here.

I'm really looking forward to working on these handmade chapbooks with these amazing poets.

Currently, Upcoming & Forthcoming

I've been very busy, too busy really. I'm working on that. One of the things that tends to drop off my list is updating here. (I do try to keep up a little better at the Bloof blog, but Facebook is generally handiest.)

This poor old site could use a complete overhaul. I'll get to that.

In the meantime, here are some updates…

• I recently did an interview with Tony Trigilio, for Radio Free Albion. Listen here.

• I wrote a review of Dara Wier's You Good Thing, for Coldfront. Read it here.

• I wrote a long poem, an homage to James Schuyler. It will appear in the next issue of Court Green. (January) I also have work forthcoming in the next issue of Map Literary.

• Publishers Weekly recently reviewed Brink: "[T]his third volume is all sorts of breakthrough: in two restrained sequences and two sets of wild, outré, funny stand-alone lyrics, Compton does as much as anyone yet to represent the way her youngish people live now, the alterable, friable, quizzical, digital, comical voice of a plugged-in, sexed-out, and reluctantly but unmistakably political cohort."

• I have several events on the calendar, including a panel next Saturday, September 28, at the Conversations & Connections writing conference in Philadelphia. Our topic is how to deal with obstacles to your writing practice, and the other panelists are Catie Rosemurgy, Michael Loughran & Sarah Blake (moderator). The conference is offered by Barrelhouse Magazine.

• In November, I have three readings in and around Chicago:
• Wednesday, November 13 at Columbia College with Nick Twemlow
• Thursday, November 14 at Illinois State University with Peter Davis (Bloomington-Normal)
• Saturday, November 16 at the Dollhouse Series with David Trinidad, Gregory Sherl & Srikanth Reddy 

• I will be reading at the Center for Book Arts in New York City on December 6 for the Center Broadside Reading Series

• Oh, and this poem at Ink Node.